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22 when your own is broken it behoves you to be as though it were another man's. And apply this method even to greater things. When a neighbour's wife or child dies, who is there that will not say, It is the lot of humanity. But when your own wife or child is dead, then it is straightway, ''Alas! wretched that I am!'' But you ought to remember how you felt when you heard of another in the same plight.

S a mark is not set up to be missed, even so it is not possible that there should be any soul of evil in the world.

F anyone were to expose your body in public, that every passer-by might do as he liked with it, you would be indignant. Is it nothing to be ashamed of then that you should set your mind at the mercy of all the world, to be troubled and disturbed whenever anyone should happen to revile you?

F every work you take in hand to do, mark well the conditions and the consequences, and